Win98SE "Unable to write to the disk" on bootup; safe mode fixes

Posted on 2024-01-27, 20:59

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by Lazer42

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I've got a K6 system dual booting to Win98Se and DOS 6.22/3.1. The disk is an IDE -> SD card. The DOS partition boots up and operates correctly every time. The Win98 will boot all the way to the desktop - every time - but with the disk light constantly running. After a minute or so, I will get a …

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90s Era MIDI keyboards for PC Market

Posted on 2023-06-13, 14:57

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by Lazer42

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I'm looking to get a MIDI keyboard of the style common for PC use in the 90s. Hopefully you know the style: white/gray, usually relatively small 32

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Re: Sound Card Woes

Posted on 2023-06-12, 21:54

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What is the Fcc id of your card? I38-MMSN845 I've attached the official drivers that were released by Aztech Labs. Take note that no official software packages were released for Windows 95 (only for Windows 3.1x). They did release Windows 95 drivers (which are included). However, most of the …

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Re: Sound Card Woes

Posted on 2023-06-12, 21:21

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AZT2316 is non-PnP and not supported -nopnp, so no Unisound (yet). PnP issues could well explain the Windows issues with the game port and MIDI - my guess is that some PnP device is being configured onto conflicting resources by Windows. Find that, move it, and it should work. Note that MIDI and …

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Re: Sound Card Woes

Posted on 2023-06-12, 13:13

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AZT2316 is non-PnP and not supported -nopnp, so no Unisound (yet). PnP issues could well explain the Windows issues with the game port and MIDI - my guess is that some PnP device is being configured onto conflicting resources by Windows. Find that, move it, and it should work. Note that MIDI and …

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Re: Sound Card Woes

Posted on 2023-06-11, 08:36

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Pretty sure ymf718 is you're best bet. Unless you can find a rare as hell ess with genuine opl3. Aztechs are ok but a bit of a pain to configure. The "good" sb16 are going to be good enough for most people, especially as you can offload midi to a hardMPU or similar. There are some crystal boards to …

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Sound Card Woes

Posted on 2023-06-10, 01:17

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I was hesitant to make a new post on a general topic that's been discussed so many times, but in the end I've not come to much of a conclusion reading prior stuff. Long story short is that I'm trying to find a sound card, or even a combination, that will work for my setup, which is a SS7 system with …

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SB16 won't play FM and wav simultaneously

Posted on 2023-01-07, 14:34

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by Lazer42

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I have an SB16 CT2230 which won't seem to play FM and wav sounds simultaneously. I've found the same behavior across multiple games, for example in both Hocus Pocus and Raptor, if I set the music to play through the Sound Canvas and FX through the SB, I get MIDI on the SC-55 and all the wav sound on …

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Re: ok guys, I give up. how did my dad make DOS menus and boot screens?

Posted on 2023-01-05, 13:48

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after another hour of screwing around and playing with config.sys and autoexec.sys I managed to squeeze a hair more memory into it. game ran but not well. its still lower than 400kb of ram available. so I need help again. is there a way to get DOS to see all 768mb? or the new board's 1.5gb of …

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Re: Trying to get a shared partition working on a dual boot system

Posted on 2023-01-05, 00:09

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glad to hear you fixed it. I had no idea you were nuking your drive with win 10, its no wonder. I suppose. Like I said, it had worked fine for over a year using partitions created and formatted by Windows 10. I actually used that tool based on recommendations from old posts here on Vogons about …

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Re: Trying to get a shared partition working on a dual boot system

Posted on 2023-01-04, 22:42

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Did you use DOS' fdisk or Win9x' fdisk to create the extended partition? It was created with Windows 10's disk manager, which is the same thing I used to create the primary partition that DOS is happily booting from. Oh my god. Please never make CHS partitions like to be used with DOS with Windows …

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Re: Trying to get a shared partition working on a dual boot system

Posted on 2023-01-04, 20:52

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Disruptor wrote on 2023-01-04, 20:36: Did you use DOS' fdisk or Win9x' fdisk to create the extended partition? It was created with Windows 10's disk manager, which is the same thing I used to create the primary partition that DOS is happily booting from.

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Re: Trying to get a shared partition working on a dual boot system

Posted on 2023-01-04, 19:41

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You don't need to hide any partition, as long as the Win9x partition is not FAT16 too. Just ensure that all DOS readable partitions are within the first 8 GB, ending cylinder maximum 1021. The Windows 98 partition should not start behind cylinder 1022. I usually have a 5 gig 2000/XP partition too, …

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Re: Trying to get a shared partition working on a dual boot system

Posted on 2023-01-04, 18:03

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Well you need another bootmanager for this to work probably, One that has partition hiding like https://www.bttr-software.de/products/bootmgr/ If the bios will work with hard drives that big, than what you could do is. Create a 2gb primary active 1st partition, a 2 gb extended 2nd partition, and a …

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Re: Trying to get a shared partition working on a dual boot system

Posted on 2023-01-04, 12:53

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I rearranged the partitions by splitting my second partition into two with unallocated space immediately after the DOS partition. Fdisk now recognizes the second partition as a valid extended DOS partition and tells me that it contains logical DOS drive D:, but when I try to access the drive DOS …

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Re: Trying to get a shared partition working on a dual boot system

Posted on 2023-01-04, 05:31

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does the motherboard bios support disk that big? scratch that I don't think that IO.sys from dos 6.22 supports disks that big. If it was dos 7.10 instead of dos 6.22 I think it would work. You might be able to get around this by making your shared partition the 2nd partition instead of the third. …

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Trying to get a shared partition working on a dual boot system

Posted on 2023-01-04, 04:02

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This is likely a relatively simple question but I'm needful of a somewhat quick answer so I decided to ask. I have a system which dual boots between DOS 6.22 and Windows 98. The disk is a 32 GB SD card with an SD to IDE adapter. The dual boot is set up with Master Booter. There is a FAT16 partition …

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Re: PLOP Boot manager+DOS+WIN98+Win ME

Posted on 2022-03-05, 19:34

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I have installed Plop on DX4-100 machine. After setting boot to "C" drive actualy it does not shows the Plop menu. It shows few seconds later some foreign characters. I have configured Plop to textmode, but nothing changed. With ctrl+PageUp(down) also does not change anything. It looks like the …

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Re: CT2230 SB16 Digital Audio Clicking/Popping?

Posted on 2021-06-01, 00:17

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Thanks for the info Lazer42. Are there particular old DOS games you could recommend to test this specific issue? The game I've found where it was most noticeable to me by far is Mickey's 123. See the video here to hear an example: https://youtu.be/gYHvWLrsF-4 I have also found Wolfenstein 3D …

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Re: CT2230 SB16 Digital Audio Clicking/Popping?

Posted on 2021-05-31, 02:22

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Here is a good discussion of the topic: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=50071 Essentially, in the CT2230 you do have one of the best SB16 models which does have the least number of problems, but these sorts of single cycle DMA clicks do occur nevertheless. I have set my system up with two …

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